Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-08-18
A High Priced Husband.

1t is good deal to give SlUO,OUO Tor an
other women's husband, especially when the
buyer is an attractive young lady of good
social position Yet that is the sum which
Miss Sarah a. Robins ia said TO have paid,
aud, having got the man, aho clung to him
with an infatuation which resembles insani-
ty. Miss Robins is the daughter Of David
Robins. {. rich builder of New York, who
died in 1871, leaving fortune of about
81 600, 900, which, after proper provision bad
been made for the widow, was divided equal
ly between Sarah A. and her brother, Francis
+. When Mrs Robins died Miss Robins
lived with her brother and his wife. She
was then an accomplished aud attractive
young lady of twenty-five, carefully edu
Gated and favorte in society. Like q
great many young ladies who have nothing
to do, she imagined that she had some ner-
vous trouble, and put herself under the care
of DR." ]. G. Johnson, a professor" Of the
massage treatment.
johnson was tall aud gaunt, il-manner-
ed, uncultured, and forty years old. Unlim-
tied assurance caused him 10 pay his adj
dresses to Miss Robins. He besought
her TO marry him, and when she told
him that she understood he was married,
he replied that he had been, but, thanks
to an Illinois divorce, was q free man.
An investigation showed that there was
Mrs. johnson and Miss Johnson living at
the Windsor Hotel and he admitted that
Mrs. johnson had been his wife, but was SO
no longer, and that she was at the hotel to
superintend their daughters education.
Mrs. Johnson however said that she was
~ fhaf fha ,rI
Connie was their daughter. All this in
formation was placed before Miss Robins
and it greatly affected her. She promised
her brother that she would see Johnson no
more.
One day She announced that she was 60.
ing to Europe Nothing could stop her.
She was of age and the mistress of fmore than
half million. She wJnt, and Johnson was
q passenger on the same steamer.
This WAS in July, 1885, Her friends heard
that she and johnson were living together
in London, where they claimed to have been
married, aud that child was born to them,
which only lived short time. Meanwhile,
the first and real Mrs. Johnson and her
daughter lived in New York, boarding ex-
pensvely at The Murray Hill Hotel, and
Mrs. Johnson told everybody that the money
which paid her bills came from her husband
in London.
An investigation proved that Miss Robins
had offered to pay Mira. Johnson $4,000, if
she would get divorce, but that she de.
manded 100000 Mrs Johnson went to
Chicago, and in July, 1856, secured C d.
vorce for desertion The homestead at
Bloomington, H.. worth $25 900, and the
custody of their daughter Connie, sged six
teen, were given to the petitioner. How
much money she go. from Miss Robins for
this has not yet been ascertained, but there
is reason 10 believe that it was all she de-
manded-S100,00
About two months before this divorce
was granted Johnson and Miss Robins re-
turned to New York and were coldly re-
received. They stayed about three months,
during the last of which, after Mrs. John.
sons divorce was granted they say they
were married by u clergyman. They then
went to Centre Ratland, VI, where they
now reside. A child was born to them last
fall, which is still living. After getting her
divorce, Mrs. Johnson and her daughter
went to Europe, where they now are.
| These facts came TO light last week, in
Supreme Court Chambers, New York, in
regard TO the reference of suit which had
been brought against Miss Robins, or Mrs
| Johnson-wnlchever sne may De-lo recoV'
er $4,000 for legal services.
An interesting question which ID likely tt
be decided by this litigation is the ultimate
disposition of the estate of Mrs. Amelif
Robins, the mother of Sarah. BY her will
she left $50, 1000 in trust, the income of which
is to go to her daughter for life, and afte
death the principal is to so to the daugh
ter's lawful heirs, if che have any. Doub
is expressed as to whether by the terms o
the decree of divorce, Mr.. johnson is per
mitied to marry another woman. If he il
not, then the child which has been borl
cannot succeed to his grandmother's prop
erty. In that case it will 60, upon th
death of Sarah a., to her surviving rela
tions.
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